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calendar 10 Jan 2021, 00:00 · 2 min read  ·
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This is a small bio (not a résumé) that is needed for the business side of things and clients' requests.

Djalal is an Open Source Software (OSS) developer and maintainer, with a focus on improving Linux security in general. Djalal helped companies primarily in USA and Europe implementing Open Source solutions and advancing Linux and Security technologies.

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Some Conferences

Open Source Software and Security

  • tetragon maintainer - eBPF-based Security Observability and Runtime Enforcement.

  • systemd maintainer with a focus on the sandboxing envrionment and related kernel/container/security interfaces.

  • Linux kernel contributor from filesystems, container interfaces, to vulnerability and security bugs.

  • kdbus kernel "dbus-like" developer.

  • CoreOS rkt container developer.

  • CoreOS Fleet maintainer.

  • Nmap maintainer, worked on network scanning techniques, scripting engine and vulnerability scanning support.

  • Ofono contributor to the Open Source telephony stack.

  • Timgad LSM developer of Timgad is a Linux Security Module that collects per process and system-wide security protections that are not handled by the core kernel itself.

  • Ahaggar framework developer - a collection of GCC plugins and various scripts intended to perform quick code analysis.

And other contributions...

Linux Kernel security research